About Me
Ara is considered amongst the cream of international electronic music artists. His many world wide tour dates include massive festivals like the ULTRA Music Festival in Miami to being a regular at Christian Smith’s Tronic Treatment parties in NYC (his hometown), Miami and Detroit, to gigs at respected clubs and parties world wide such as Pacha and Gatecrasher, to several gigs in Ibiza and just about every continent in the world.
His contributions to the global music scene include releases and remixes on globally respected labels like Terminal M, Circle Music, Advanced and Liftin’. His tracks, as well as others from his own label Gotham Grooves, gets played, charted, and appears on CDs by DJ’s Carl Cox , Richie Hawtin, DJ Hell, Dave Clarke, Ben Sims, Eric Sneo , Max Graham, Alex Flatner, DJ Mayuri, DJ Lucca, and others.
He Releases and Dj’s as Agent Orange with an upbeat, funky, Electro-House & Tribal House & Techno sound, and as ARA with a Pumping Minimal and Tech-House sound. He's been dedicated to producing his own music as well as managing Gotham Grooves since 2000. With Gotham, he went full force to push Techno in the US and created the opportunity to sign hot US talent along side international all-stars like, Valentino Kanzyani, Bryan Zentz, Danilo Vigorito and Tim Xavier along with his own releases. He also ran the "Tech-Support" nights, one of NYC's most respected weekly techno events, where he showcased many local talents alongside cream of the crop international artists including Adam Beyer, Space DJz, W.J. Henze (aka Gecko), Oliver Ho, Deetron, Christian Smith, Ben Sims and more.
In the summer of 2006 he moved to Barcelona to continue his studio projects and has also been playing around the city and the rest of Europe more than ever.
Future projects will include electronic music which incorporates old Armenian, Greek and Middle Eastern musical instruments like the Duduk, Oud, Zurna & Dumbeg, mixed with tribal electronic beats. While Agent Orange = raw energy and dance floor fun, ARA = minimal grooves and advanced studio production technique. Smooth mixing skills allow him to play through tracks and styles with ease and he has personally remixed just about every song in his collection!
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